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t the site of the future World War I Memorial in the District, people gathered to remember the D.C. residents who gave their lives during the war.

WASHINGTON - An 89-year-old Korean War veteran – who was a victim of financial elder abuse - is coming home to some new surroundings on Monday. With some help from Purple Heart Homes, Thomas Pressley’s previously condemned home has been…

A D.C. firefighter broke his leg during a training exercise Thursday, when he was thrown 30 feet off a truck ladder that suddenly moved due to a broken securing mechanism.

One hundred years after the end of World War I, the Army Corps of Engineers is still cleaning up the relics of experiments that helped develop chemical weapons to counter the Germans’ gas attacks.

On Sunday morning, city and military officials gathered at the D.C. War Memorial on the Mall to mark an occasion no one present was old enough to remember.

The goal is to open the site between the White House and City Hall by Veterans Day 2021, a century after the nation interred the unknown soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.

A Washington arts council reversed a decision on Thursday to make all of its grantees sign new contracts that several arts groups said would leave recipients open to censorship.

According to the most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey, approximately 1 in 6 high schoolers in the District reported having attempting suicide in 2017. A closer look at the District’s racial/ethnic minority and sexual minority youths…

Nobody likes watching TV with me. I see — and point out to anyone who will listen — the careful framing and editing tricks used to “transform” Toronto into New York or, in the case of the (painfully awful) “X-Files” revival, Vancouver into…

WASHINGTON — Metro has reached settlements with more people injured in the deadly 2015 Yellow Line smoke incident near L’Enfant Plaza.

WASHINGTON — Metro really does control its tunnels and stations, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

The graduation rate for the District’s traditional public high schools slid 4.6 percentage points in 2018 — marking the first decline since at least 2011 and coming amid heightened scrutiny over whether District students properly earn their…

VERY LITTLE fanfare accompanied the shuttering of the District’s notorious shelter for homeless families at the old D.C. General hospital. There were brief remarks, and the entrance was chained shut. “We’re moving on,” said Mayor Muriel E.…

The story of the District’s paid family- and medical-leave law is a tale of two cities.

Jennifer Wexton, the newly-elected House representative of Virginia’s 10th district, publicly announced her support for D.C. statehood on WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show Politics Hour on Friday.

Once elections have ended, Yadira Molina finds the remaining campaign signs around the city irritating.

In the coming years, wireless service providers could be installing thousands of small cell antennae and related equipment throughout the District, as many as four per block. The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is currently…

Nearly a year after its soft opening and months after receiving its permanent Certificate of Occupancy, those responsible for building The Line Hotel face renewed scrutiny from the subcontractors who performed construction work on the…

Pepsi is the choice of the University of the District of Columbia. Want a Coke and smile? Leave campus.

Injury comes as reporter focuses on serious ladder truck & general fleet problems